Thunderbolts of the Gods is a
108 page 8-1/2 x 11 full color monograph based on the life work of the two
authors--a revolutionary synthesis of comparative mythology and the
newly-discovered "Electric Universe".

The Monograph includes
an hour-long DVD introducing various aspects of the Electric
Universe explained by members of the Thunderbolts Group.

Jan 26, 2006The "Iron Sun" Debate (4)Meteorites and the Modern Myth of Solar System Genesis

In his “Iron Sun” theory, Oliver Manuel has developed an unorthodox
answer to puzzles concerning the birth of the solar system, recorded
in meteorites and lunar samples. But in interpreting these samples,
he has fallen prey to a conventional myth as to their origins.

The popular
theoretical picture of our solar system today is strongly wedded to
the “nebular hypothesis”. The theory traces the origin of the Sun
and planets to a primordial cloud of gas and dust, in which the
gravitational force led to the cloud’s progressive collapse into a
spinning disk. Within this disk, the Sun formed at the center and
all of the secondary bodies from planets and moons down to
asteroids, comets, and meteorites accreted from leftover debris.

But how did
gases in a diffuse “cloud” collapse against the inherent tendency of
gases in a vacuum to expand and rotating systems to fly apart? Why is the Sun tilted 7 degrees to the
ecliptic? Why should giant planets, recently discovered in distant
planetary systems, favor a close orbit about their star, while
Jupiter and Saturn orbit far from the Sun? And if the different
bodies in our solar system arose from a homogenous cloud, why does
their composition vary so?

Plasma
cosmology provides the simple answer to the question of how stars
are formed. They are formed by the powerful and long-reaching
electromagnetic force of a “plasma pinch”, a principle well
researched in the laboratory and now observed in detail in high
resolution images of planetary nebulae.

According to
Hannes Alfvén and other pioneers of plasma cosmology, a stellar
system gives way to gravity only after the star is formed and as the
plasma pinch subsides. In this view it is not correct to look to
gravity as the cause of star formation. It is also
normal for a number of stars to be formed along the axis of the
plasma pinch and subsequently scatter "like buckshot" following
the collapse of the pinch. Planets are generally not formed at this
stage. We should expect that stars formed in this manner would, as a
group, tend to have their rotational axes aligned along the
direction of the galactic magnetic field.

The “Electric
Universe” model of stars takes the role of the electric force
further, suggesting that evolving star systems move through phases
of electrical instability before achieving the equilibrium that
marks our own solar system today. Stellar companions and gas giant
planets are "born"—ejected—fully formed from a star
before it achieves electrical balance with its new environment. That
explains both the preponderance of multiple star systems and the
close-orbiting gas giants. Rocky planets and moons are similarly
born at intervals by means of electrical expulsion from gas giants.
Rings about gas giants and stars are principally a result of
electrical expulsion, not gravitational accretion.

In this view,
the electrical birth pangs associated with newly-born planets and
moons can immerse celestial bodies in violent plasma discharge,
sculpting the surfaces of the newcomers. Planets and moons are
charged objects, and subsequent encounters in an unstable system can
leave surfaces dominated by electrical craters, vast trenches, and
other scars. Much of the excavated material can then be lofted by
the discharge into space as comet nuclei, asteroids, and meteorites,
while portions of the material may fall back to form strata of
shattered rock and loose soil. Electrical interactions between
planets also have the beneficial effect of quickly restoring order
out of chaos.

Like any
biological family, the planets of our solar system were born at
different times and from different parents. They have a complex
history that includes electrical exchanges capable of upsetting
atomic clocks and producing numerous isotopic anomalies. As rocky
surfaces are excavated electrically, for example, the resulting
short-lived radioactive isotopes may wind up in the grains of
meteorites.

Proponents of
the Electric Universe suggest that most conventional claims about
the birth of the solar system, though stated with great confidence,
are highly conjectural. And if one discerns something fundamentally
wrong in a common teaching in the sciences, a skeptical posture
toward other conventional assumptions is also appropriate. We have
already suggested that Oliver Manuel, in developing his argument for
the “Iron Sun”, was too willing to accept orthodox assumptions.

Manuel writes,
for example: "The Apollo mission returned from the Moon in 1969 with
soil samples whose surfaces were loaded with elements implanted by
the solar wind," we can see that it is an assumption based on an
undisturbed, clockwork planetary system. But in this case the more
telling facts may relate to lunar soil isotopes that do not
appear in the solar wind.

Based on the
isotopic composition of meteorites, Manuel has suggested that the
nascent solar system must have experienced a very close supernova
explosion before meteorites were formed. But the idea that either
the Sun or any other body in the solar system is the remnant
of a supernova is unnecessary. There is no necessary
connection between supernovae and meteorite isotopes. In fact, it
was suggested long ago that the many strange features of meteorites
could have been formed in gargantuan lightning flashes within a
solar nebula. And Manuel has noted that grains in the Murchison
meteorite have isotope abundances related to grain size that "mimic
the properties of 'fall-out' grains produced after the explosion of
a nuclear weapon…" The Electric Universe model satisfies both ideas.

As we have
already suggested, supernovae are emphatically an electric discharge
phenomenon. So the many puzzling features of
meteorites may be
explained by their formation in the debris of any
high-energy plasma discharge. In these pages, we have documented the
recent
electrical sculpting of planets by cosmic scale discharges in
the solar system. We have suggested that meteorites are the debris
of planetary encounters, a conclusion now supported by direct
observation of planetary surfaces and by the study of meteorites,
the latter revealing the effects of flash heating, ion implantation,
and the isotopic anomalies that would be expected from an
interplanetary thunderbolt.

Of
course, the close encounters required for electrical exchanges mean
that the planets were not formed in their present orbits, as
astronomers commonly assume. And there is good reason why virtually
every rocky body in the solar system shows evidence of
catastrophic
encounters. The history of the solar system is one of "punctuated
equilibrium" – long periods of stability punctuated by brief
episodes of chaos as new members are accommodated. The fact that no
simple gradation of planetary characteristics occurs within the
solar family needs no other explanation.